"You HAD to push the button, didn't you?" the PFY snaps angrily at the Boss in the dark of the elevator.
"I only just TOUCHED it!" the Boss snivels. "It's not like I actually PRESSED it!"
"Now, now," I say. "No use crying over fried control panels. We need to take a look at how bad it is before we start getting upset. And …

Nice one...

If the pinch atays in the story we need scematics

Detailed schematics required, enquiring minds wish to verify the veracity of this tale. Besides, there's a certain credit institution that I have to deal with who could do with a series of inexplicable hardware failures.

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Nice to see a bit of Boss and BOFH mutual partnership going on here - Clearly a Pointy-head who knows enough to keep on the right side of the digital rogues by signing things without question, and not intervining in the face of impending doom.

here's hoping for a few more episodes with this boss, before the status-quo returnes.

So who gets played by Peter Lorre

Re: BOFH - the movie

@BOFH - the movie

> and who came up with the word movie - any Americans among us?

Texan here, close enough I hope...

My understanding was that the early movies were played in theaters that previously displayed slide shows, which were quite popular during the 19th century. Anyway, those venues had screens and power suitable for the projectors, and as the images moved...

Life following Art. Who said the Movies aren't Real?

"here's hoping for a few more episodes with this boss, before the status-quo returnes." .... By David Austin Posted Friday 11th April 2008 13:14 GMT

Dave,

I think you'll find IT is replacing it ... with something Beta. After all, papering over the cracks, still leaves all the old hacks in place and who would accept that as Progress whenever it is they who are the Problem.

"If the pinch atays in the story we need scematics" ... By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 11th April 2008 13:07 GMT .......is on the right track for Crashing Foxy Poxy Proxy Systems.

A whole new art form emerging

This is brilliant! I can see it now - the next edition of BOFH will actually go BACK in time by a few days, to lay some groundwork for the welding of the hatch, and the developing relationship (!) with Security. Can't wait!

Fantastic!

Another great one. Good to see follow up from one episode to the next.

Now that you've said Ricky Gervais I can't see anyone but him! The sarcasm, the sharp edge to the voice... Simon Pegg could do it and he is a better actor by far but I think Ricky would have the edge.

PFY? It depends on if this is a re imagining etc. There is a long history here to try to bring to the screen so the actor could depend upon if we're looking at the young lad who arrived all those years ago or the bloke in his late twenties (or older) that the PFY must be by now.

Boss, same as above. The current boss seems to know which side his bread is buttered on and has stayed out of jail, the looney bin or the morgue by simply not getting in the way and showing a constructive interest rather than the intrusive interest others have.

BOFH fillum

Well done Simon...

As for doing a movie, do a movies initially, but the TV series format is a better option for this kind of story line. Select your best and most historic episodes, pump them into a movie format, then go the TV serial. Your writing format suits the TV serial mode (like the old Doctor Who) but if you add the week to week connection between episodes ( like you have done with this latest contribution) you would have a recipe for a wickedly funny weekly serial.

Anyway, well done, I still have the image of the PFY heading for security central with the pinch in hand....

Another great episode

Simon does keep outdoing himself on these.

After the week I've had I entertained visions of myself dragging in a roll of carpet and bag of lime to deal with the users and Management, (Management ppffttt, they couldn't manage a piss up in a brewery) I thought about using the Pinch but, considering the state of "pissed off" I'm in I'd just rip the internals out and fill it with brick so i could just swing at the head of the next manager grinning stupidly at me

Hugh Laurie would definitely have to be the BOFH he plays the BDFH so well, too well in fact.

Skull 'cause that's what I'm going to crack of the next person that hands me a job that was due last week and only just remembered to hand it over to me

BOFH Movie

I believe in BOFH 2000: Episode 4, the BOFH said that he...

...was working on the screenplay for a Bastard movie called A Few Good Simms, to star Jack Nicholson as me, Demi Moore as the unrequited love interest and Tom Hanks as the Boss. (I would have used Tom Cruise, but that's just cliche)